I finished reading this book in July, take advantage of the weekend to write down reading notes
This book
Author: [US] Peter Lee [US] Carey Goldberg
【US】Isaac Kohane Translated by Lu Yi
In the turbulent era of AI, in the past three years of the new crown, the publication of the book "GPT Medical Beyond Imagination" has brought good expectations to the future prospects of the medical industry for people who are worried about the medical carrying capacity. To be honest, when I saw the case in the "GTP-4 doctor's story" in the previous introduction about the case of the resident intern Krittens who used the GPT-4 application to seek help when the patient's condition deteriorated in an emergency , It also makes me feel excited, imagining the future (maybe in the near future) we can use AI to quickly search for intractable diseases in the medical industry, and form a suitable treatment plan, which will be a leap forward in the medical industry Great progress.
This book makes a statement from the convenience advantages brought by GPT-4 in the medical industry.
1) It can be an advanced medical search engine, which can quickly search in massive medical knowledge bases and medical cases, and match the best results;
2) It can be a new type of assistant in medical clinics, helping doctors to record diagnoses and relieve medical workers of heavy paperwork (doctors spend an average of 51% of their time on electronic health records and office tasks, and direct clinical face-to-face communication with patients Progress 49%), allowing medical workers to spend more time on doctor-patient communication and care. Microsoft's acquisition of Nuance Communications in 2021 is specifically designed to listen to and record conversations between doctors and patients, and automate most of the work of writing the necessary documents. However, in actual work, AI records still need to be manually checked. In the future, the manual check work can be changed to AI check. We will see that the combination of "doctor-patient-AI assistant" will evolve into "doctor-patient-AI assistant" -AI Verifier"
3) It has excellent performance in mathematics, coding and logic. It can accurately calculate the infusion speed of a doctor or a nurse at work, and realize table editing through the program. Prioritize planning work to improve work efficiency. For example, a nurse needs to transfer four patients, and the destinations are the physical therapy room, the new crown ward, the X-ray room and the dental clinic. In order to reduce infection, how to accurately plan the route and reduce Put on and take off safety protective clothing to improve work efficiency.
4) It can assist in the business of healthcare delivery, in conjunction with prescribing drug application authorizations. It can also improve the scoring and assessment of the quality of services provided by medical staff and medical institutions, and put forward targeted improvement suggestions.
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GPT-4 can do a lot of work in the medical industry, and it can bring a qualitative leap to the medical industry. But it is undeniable that it still has many deficiencies, at least at this stage we cannot completely rely on it.
1) It sometimes has "illusions", resulting in wrong conclusions that seem to be correct;
2) It cannot handle very long texts, such as insurance policy clauses;
3) The AI system is like a "black box". Even the engineers who develop these systems cannot fully understand its inner workings. If its conclusions are wrong, who will bear the legal consequences
4) The current laws and regulations and safety supervision policies are not perfect. In the rapidly developing AI era, the supervision system needs to be improved.
In short, AI has brought convenience to the medical industry, but it also has some shortcomings. We appreciate AI machines, but we must also warn that with the advent of new power, we may abuse it, regardless of "whether AGI is realized or not" It is important to keep an open mind at all times about how the problem is viewed.
Looking forward to the wonderful changes that AI will bring to medical care, looking forward to AI can make our lives healthier and more comfortable, and let us humans live longer~~~~